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Which names do you IRRATIONALLY dislike?

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verelab · 25/10/2014 19:23

This is not certainly not meant to be a "bitchy names thread". The emphasis is on the word IRRATIONAL. i.e. there are some names that are perfectly innocuous, lots of other people like them, I've known some lovely people with those names (so no obvious bad associations) BUT for some reason I've always disliked them. Would be interested in hearing anyone else's bugbear names!

ANNA - just too symmetrical, and (to my ears) smug and boring

LUCINDA - I like Lucy, but for some reason the "inda" really turns me off this name

Anything with "BELLE"on the end.Annabelle, Isabelle etc Pretty on paper, but I just don't like the sound for some reason

BEATRICE again irrational, but the combination of sounds just doesn't do it for me, it does the opposite of "trip off the tongue"

This is not meant to be in any way offensive. My 3 children have really "Marmite" names, and I don't mind at all that some people don't like them.
I just think everyone finds that certain sounds "jar" with them. Do others find this?

On a different note, the Baby Names topic is brilliant and I have been a long time lurker!

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MissBeehiving · 26/10/2014 18:42

Alfie
Jayden, Kaiden etc
Tiannah
Layla
Tallulah
Ross
Donna

All irrational - apologies

MrsPatMustard · 26/10/2014 18:41

Also Carmel. Looks like a mis-spelling of camel, or caramel. Stupid...

Tranquilitybaby · 26/10/2014 18:38

Phoebe - just don't like the way it reads.

Reggie - suits an old man or a dog

MrsPatMustard · 26/10/2014 18:31

I can't bear Nicholas. Nick is fine but Nicholas just screams 'pompous, wet, mummy's boy' in my head.

CruCru · 26/10/2014 18:26

Louise
Jessica
Natasha
Anything - "bel / belle / Bella" - but part of this is the way it is pronounced in my hometown accent.

CruCru · 26/10/2014 18:23

Daniel
Samuel
Isaac
Christian
Adam
Benjamin
Fraser

Ellie / Ella / lily / milly / Tilly etc
Lisa
Amber
Charlotte
Michaela

deadwitchproject · 26/10/2014 17:39

I think a pp mentioned the same, but anything with an "ie" ending:

Kellie, Aflie, Maisie, Freddie, Jamie, Amelie etc.

Also Olive (cannot get over "on the buses" reference) and Violet (cannot see it written as anything other than violent). Completely irrational.

startwig1982 · 26/10/2014 17:37

I can't bear the whole Jayden, Caidyn, Haydn brigade. Vile.

Plus I've never taught a nice Josh, nor has my DH.

AnathemaIsANiceNameForAGirl · 26/10/2014 17:27

Daniel
Oliver
Oscar
Johnathan with the extra 'h', looks wrong
Andrew
Neil

Kelly
Nicola
Louise
Ellie

MehsMum · 26/10/2014 17:16

PS And yy to registering a child with a diminutive rather than a 'proper', full name. Alfie, Abby, Jamie etc all seem to saddle a child with a baby name for life. Don't even like Meg or Molly: suck up Margaret or Mary and then use the nn.

MehsMum · 26/10/2014 17:14

Boys:
Barry (awful), Connor (awful), Nigel (wet), Timothy (wet)
Girls
Lauren (princessy, though I know a lovely one), Georgina (pretentious), Samantha (just awful), Shelby (vvv awful, the worst name ever)

JazzAnn
'I don't like anything that starts with a 'k'
Have never found a 'k' name that I like'

How about Keziah? One of my favourite ever names, along with Seth.
*Pronounced Kez-i-a, NOT Kez-igh-ah, which sounds moany.

juneau · 26/10/2014 17:13

And Millie, Tilly, Evie, Mollie, etc - ditto

educationrocks1 · 26/10/2014 17:13

'Alice'.
She sounds too long suffering. The only man she ever loved was snatched from right under her nose. She wanted to become a nurse and travel, but instead spent all her years in the village working in her gran dad's thrift shop. She became guardian to her 6 siblings all under 10 when she was 25 and her parents tragically died. That's 'Alice'. Sad

I have no idea where this comes from, completely irrational.

juneau · 26/10/2014 17:12

Jayden, Kayden, Brayden - just yuck
Morag - sounds like hag
Esther - the s and th together just sounds clumsy
Alfie, Arthur and Archie - sound like old men
Melanie - I've never met a Melanie I like and it just sounds wet and insipid
Christine - I have no idea why I dislike this one, but I do
Ava, Amelie, Scarlett, Ruby, Ella, and Lily-May - mind-numbingly unoriginal

tallulah · 26/10/2014 17:00

Emma Ella and all the cutesy Millie Molly sort of names.

ReadyToBreak · 26/10/2014 16:54

*on

ReadyToBreak · 26/10/2014 16:54

LISA

It sets my teeth in edge, I hate it and I have no idea why!

Esker · 26/10/2014 16:50

Kyle
Kevin
Kian

Most boys names that begin with a K, for some reason I cannot abide.

thisismypassword · 26/10/2014 16:46

It's easier to find names I do like, as there are so few of these and so many that I irrationally and rationally hate!

Most recently: A friend named her child Alice. Oh dear.
A group that I go to has a cute, blonde child called Bessie. Bessie is a cow's name.
Isabel etc don't bother me, it's just such an ubiquitous name tbh!

scarletforya · 26/10/2014 16:32

Jamie
Jodie

Peyton
Madison
Hunter

Monty
Jonty
Jeremy

bouncingbelle · 26/10/2014 15:58

Grace. I KNOW this is technically a beautiful classic name but something about it just really annoys me, to the point I begged my sister not to call her daughter this.

Tim - it's a word to describe people of a certain religion and just a wet, weedy sounding name. This is despite every Tim I,ve ever met being lovely and not wet or weedy.

Completely irrational!

KoalaDownUnder · 26/10/2014 15:51

I must say, I'm quite surprised by the frequency of Alice and Chloe in here! Not my personal favourite names, but I think they're quite lovely.

Tegan/Teagan, on the other hand...ugly, like Megan.

MiddletonPink · 26/10/2014 15:46

Riley.

GilbertBlytheWouldGetBit · 26/10/2014 15:45

Tegan

Peter

Mary

Melodygrace · 26/10/2014 15:39

Hate the name Chloe.